Copy, share, or die!

Mike Linksvayer, July 27th, 2006

I mean, it’s no accident that a horror movie like “The Ring” came out during the heyday of file sharing. Let’s think about it — the flick is about a haunted videocassette that will kill you unless you make a duplicate copy and show it to somebody else. It’s like a nightmare analog version of BitTorrent. If you do not share your media, you will die. Creative Commons really should do a cartoon parody of “The Ring.”

I’ve never heard of this movie though Wikipedia confirms the plotline. Clearly a multiple-plotline parody is in order:

Character one must copy DRM media or die. Circumvents DRM, goes to jail, attacked by gang, dies.

Character two must copy DRM media or die. Atttempts to circumvent DRM, fails, dies.

Character three must copy DRM media or die. Realizes circumventing DRM is criminal, has moral crisis but in the end does the right thing, dies.

Character four must copy CC licensed media or die. Makes copy, shares with friends and strangers, remixes, is remixed, lives long and prospers.